A to Z Kids Stuff offers a variety of resources for students of all ages. The site contains links to information related to science and social studies, written at a level that is understandable by elementary students. It also contains lesson plans and activities. It is not the neatest site and it does contain ads, […]
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Sugar Stacks is a site designed to help us understand how much sugar is contained in the foods we eat. Sugar Stacks uses regular sugar cubes as a visual aid to showing the amount of sugar as listed on the product labels.
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VocabGrabber is part of the Visual Thesaurus website. VocabGrabber creates a word cloud of vocabulary words from any text you copy and paste into their text box. Each of the words becomes a link that, when clicked on, displays the definition of the word in both written and web format.
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Encyclopedia of Chicago, as the name suggests, is an online encyclopedia of the history of Chicago, sponsored by the Chicago History Museum, the Newberry Library and Northwestern University. The site contains, articles, photos, maps, newspaper, videos and more related to the history of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, including Bloomingdale.
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bubbabrain is a site that offers a variety of interactive activities for all grade levels. The activities are easy to use and are organized by grade level, then by subject. Teachers can create their own games, but they need to register. Students can play the games created by their teacher by entering the teacher’s ID.
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Wordsmyth is an online dictionary designed for use by students of all levels. Wordsmyth offers three levels of dictionary: Beginner’s, Children’s and Advanced. Wordsmyth provides definitions, audio pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, similar words and image.
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The Free Online Dictionary is an online dictionary and thesaurus. In addition, you can search for and look up the meanings of popular idioms. You can also search for the meaning of frequently-used acronyms.
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Great Ways to Teach Any Day’s Times is a post on the New York Times’ Learning Network blog. I’ve mentioned The Learning Network blog before in this blog. It’s one of my favorite educational blogs. I just discovered that they have a number of interactive graphic organizers (e.g. Venn Diagram, KWL Chart, Cause and Effect […]
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GetBodySmart is an interactive site created by a college anatomy and physiology professor to help teachers, students, healthcare professionals and others learn about the human body. In addition to an animated views of the different body systems, the site offers tutorials and quizzes. The site is under construction, but still contains many valuable resources.
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My Learning is a site created for teachers and students managed through Leeds Museums and Galleries. I found some interesting interactive activities by clicking on the “Interactives” link on the home page. The activities are user-friendly and can be used with a variety of grade levels. Most of the interactive resources are related to language […]
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